From Beast Abilities to Sect Grand Master

"I did it!" Wang Nian shouted and pumped his fist into the air.

So many times, he had tried to bring people to the secret realm but failed.

All the rewards that the chief librarian promised him, pills, gold, jewels and manuscripts, had been out of reach for him.

But this time he feels that he might have a shot with Lin Fan and the others.

At least it was the first time he had gotten so far to the entrance of the secret realm.

"No time to waste. Let's get inside the secret realm," Lin Fan said and everyone nodded.

One by one they got into the secret realm.

When they were all gone, the glow disappeared.

Plop.

Lin Fan fell and dropped onto the ground when he stepped through the glow.

He landed unscathed with his Skybound Stride ability.

"Help me!" Wang Nian's voice shouted from above Lin Fan.

Lin Fan looked up and saw Wang Nian falling towards him.

Boom.

He activated his Skybound Stride, leaped into the air and held onto Wang Nian's robes.

The sudden force stopped Wang Nian in the air, and he felt his body nearly ripping off his robes.

"Can't you be gentler?" Wang Nian rubbed his reddened nose and said.

Lin Fan didn't bother and said, "Where do we go now?"

He looked down and saw Ho Ming and Hun Yen Kun on the ground waiting for him.

Slowly he descended with Wang Nian.

Wang Nian walked around the area and inspected the surroundings.

His mood turned sour immediately.

He walked back toward Lin Fan and the others and said, "Seems to me that this secret realm is an enactment of the last sect master's life."

"The last sect master's life? What's so bad about it?" Lin Fan asked.

Wang Nian sighed and said, "The last sect master was a true believer in arduous cultivation, which means that we might have to go through many sufferings to get to the enclosure he is in."

Hun Yen Kun frowned when he heard the word sufferings.

Ho Ming glanced at Lin Fan as usual.

As long as Lin Fan was up for it, he would be there for him.

"Let's get it over and done with quickly," Lin Fan said.

He had expected the task to be difficult but not to this extent.

When they get back, the chief librarian had better give them some manuscripts that were powerful enough to keep him quiet.

"Right ahead, that's where the previous sect master practiced his Arduous Cultivation."

Wang Nian pointed at a path leading to an open square.

Lin Fan and the others followed the path and got to the open square.

In the square there was a young monk.

He was inserting what looked to be needles into his body.

Blood came out of the wounds and dripped onto the ground.

The young monk was like a porcupine with at least a hundred needles inserted into his body.

Wang Nian tried very hard not to squirm with what he saw.

And for once, Hun Yen Kun had no mood for a poem even though what he had witnessed was something to be remembered.

"Who are you? Why are you here to disrupt my cultivation?" The young monk turned and looked at Lin Fan and the others.

"It's the younger self of the previous sect master, Mo Chan," Wang Nian pointed at the young monk and said.

A familiar sound erupted in Lin Fan's mind.

[Ding!]

[Detected soul with malevolent intent incoming!]

[Terminate person with malevolent intent for 1500 vengeance points.]

"Be careful," Lin Fan shouted as he took out his spear.

He grabbed onto Wang Nian's robe and with a tug, he pulled him behind and threw him ten meters outside the open square.

"Argh. When I said gentler, I didn't mean it this way," Wang Nian mumbled as he fell and rolled on the ground.

When he got up and looked in the direction of the open square, his eyes opened wide.

Lin Fan held the shaft of his spear tightly as he focused on Mo Chan, who had clasped his hands together.

And the next moment, with a roar, needles in Mo Chan's body flew out of his body and shot in every direction.

Whoosh.

The needles missed as Lin Fan turned into a mist and the needles went through the mist.

Ho Ming had activated his turtle shell artifact, and the needles plunged halfway into the turtle shell.

Hun Yen Kun had in the nick of time gotten next to Ho Ming to be in the turtle shell's protection.

Boom.

Lin Fan had tried to use the mist to get through Mo Chan's body, but Mo Chan lunged at Ho Ming and Hun Yen Kun instead.

Thud.

With a punch, the turtle shell that engulfed Ho Ming and Hun Yen Kun cracked.

Mo Chan pulled his fist back and was ready for another punch, which would definitely shatter the turtle shell.

But before he could do so, a fireball came at Mo Chan.

Lin Fan activated his Inferno Comet ability and shot at Mo Chan.

The extreme heat from the fireball melted the sand of the open square, leaving a trail of molten glass behind.

Mo Chan had to turn and punch at the fireball coming at him instead.

Boom!

When the punch hit the fireball, a huge explosion ensued.

Ho Ming and Hun Yen Kun were hurled away by the shockwave, and they tumbled across the ground.

When they stopped, they were thirty meters away from where Lin Fan was.

Lin Fan stood in the middle of a crater with magma flowing within it.

Mo Chan wasn't far away as he held his hand onto his injured fist.

His injured fist was now a mangled mass of flesh and bones.

His legs were being scorched, burnt and carbonized by the flowing magma.

Lin Fan stared and pointed his spear at Mo Chan.

An eerie smile appeared on Mo Chan's face.

"Pain, yes! Pain! Give me more of that!" He held up his fist and licked at the mangled mass of flesh and bones.

Suddenly, the flesh and bones twitched, and it moved.